Call for Potential Hosts of the Tenth Latin America Regional ISTR Conference to be held in 2015

Call
for Potential Hosts of the Tenth Latin America Regional ISTR Conference to be
held in 2015

The ISTR Latin America and the
Caribbean Regional Network requests researchers and affiliated institutions
from any country of the Region to step forward to express their interest in
co-organizing the Tenth ISTR Regional Conference for Latin America and the
Caribbean, which will be held in 2015. Final decision on the location will be
made by the ISTR Board during the International ISTR Conference in Muenster in
July 2014.

Previous regional conferences for
Latin America and the Caribbean were held in Brazil (1998), Chile (1999), in
Argentina (2001), in Costa Rica (2003), in Peru (2005), in Brazil (2007),
Mexico (2009), Argentina (2011, co-organized by institutions of Argentina and
Uruguay) and most recently in Santiago de Chile in 2013. Next regional
conference will take place in 2015.

Hosting a regional conference is a
prime opportunity for strategic engagement of stakeholders and promotion of the
third sector within the host city and country and to promote fruitful alliances
at the local and national level and with other countries in the region.

We encourage private and public
academic institutions, civil society organizations and research centers to
submit proposals for hosting and co-organizing the next ISTR Regional
Conference in 2015. The organizations or consortia of organizations that are
interested in coordinating the Tenth Regional Conference should have the
ability to:

-Engage a broad range of academics and practitioners within
civil society or the third sector from within the host country;

-Make fundraising efforts to ensure the conference
success

-Provide sufficient administrative support to oversee
the process of reviewing proposals for the conference and setting the goals of
the program

-Plan all the logistics to carry out the event

In past regional conferences, two
committees have always been formed. The first is an academic committee which
includes researchers and practitioners from various countries in the region,
and the second is a local host committee.
Members of the Regional Coordination will serve voluntarily and
coordinate the programmatic aspects of conference with the local committee.

The process of selecting the host for
the 2013 Regional Conference will be facilitated by the Board of Directors of
ISTR, with the participation of all the members associated in the region. The
last day to submit your proposal is April 30, 2014.

On behalf of the ISTR Board and the
Regional Coordination for Latin America and the Caribbean,